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Jim Smith (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jim_smith) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2008-02-20 23:24:00 |
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| Entry tags: | comics |
These kids today with their 15-cent comics and their year zeroes...
Some introduction may be necessary, so...Marvel Comics publishes a line of swank hardcovers reprinting classic series in chronological order, known as Marvel Masterworks. The Marvel Masterworks Message Board, then, is a forum for discussing these books, and anxiously speculating as to which ones will come out next. Typical discussions go like "Should Marvel begin reprinting The New Mutants before or after Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal?
After some 25 years, the Masterworks line is getting pretty close to reprinting every Marvel superhero comic from the 1960s, which prompts Bilbo to proclaim that the Silver Age is nearly complete. But when exactly does the Silver Age of Comics end, and how many more volumes will it take to get there?
MakeMineMarvel: I consider anything with a 12 or 15 cent cover price to be Silver age. May sound kind of dumb but my thinking is Spider-Man #100 was the end of an era.
gardibolt: Personally, I place the end of the Silver Age a lot later than most people, but the significance of the death of Gwen is just too huge to ignore it as a dividing line. Marvel Comics after were not the same as comics before.
Giant Turtle Boy:Spider-Man was certainly not the same afterward. But all Marvel Comics?
Personally, I think the Silver Age ends at a different time for each title.
droid714: To me, the end of the Silver age happened with the expansion in 1968. It wasn't long after the anthology titles went to a single character and the displaced characters were given their own mags, that the overall quality went noticeably downhill.
This goes on rather politely (if somewhat pointlessly) for a couple of pages, until ReviveTheRedRaven rushes in where angels fear to tread:
For DC, the Silver Age would start sooner and still end in 1970. In the late 50's we had Julie's books including Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space plus the fine stories/art in the war comics. This continued into the sixties and there's really no easy place to end it, so do it with the Dec. 1970 books, the last ones of the sixties.
Bronze can be 1971 -1980. Granted, there will be some overlap but the simple decade way is the easiest.
Uh-oh. This can't end well. Sure enough...
The 7th decade of the 20th century is 1961-1970.
A decade is ten years, there was no year zero, image so the first decade ever was the years one through ten. Decades end with zeros.
The 1900's/sixties, etc. nonsense is why kids (and news anchors) can't tell time, dates, or much of anything else accurately.
You really have to go look at RRR's post, complete with every "I'm angry/frustrated!" emoticon available on the board, to get the full effect of his rage. He is BEATING HIS HEAD AGAINST A WALL with outrage!
You can use it to say the year 2000 is part of the 20th century. That's it.
Saying the 20th century isn't the same as saying the 1900's. You can look it up in any dictionary.
Then we have those fools who celebrated the new millenium on Dec. 31, 1999...
Numbers are numbers. A century is a century.
A decade is any ten years you mean it to be. 1960-1969, 1961-1970 or even 1966-1975. Those are all decades.
Similarly, one can mean 1000-1999 with a millennium if that's what one means. Or 1563-2462. That's a millennium too.
After all, if somebody lived for a century, that doesn't mean they have to have been born in 1901 and died in 2000. A person who was born in 1955 and died in 2054 lived a century too.
Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2004 was titled "A Century of Flight", from 1904 to 2004. Note that it was *not* the version of Flight Simulator released in 2000 or 2001 that was "A Century", but the one in *2004*.
It can't get any worse, can it? Yes it can.
Can't argue with that logic.
Right around here the moderator finally wakes up and closes the thread. It's a shame--after eight pages of this I never did find out whether Yehoshua's non-biological birth happened in the 15-cent era or when Microsoft Flight Simulator came out.
